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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Sunday, June 27, 2004 ::
Women struggling to make gains in construction industry By Eve Mitchell, Oakland Tribune, CA
Depending on the trade, union jobs pay anywhere from $20 to $40 an hour and include generous health and retirement benefits.
For example, a journey-level union electrician makes about $37 an hour. (Nonunion jobs generally pay less and may not include benefits.)
Despite affirmative action efforts to recruit women in construction that began in earnest in 1978, there is still a low number of women working in the trades. This comes at a time when the construction industry is bracing for a nationwide labor shortage in the coming years as an aging work force starts to retire.
In the last five years, for every four people leaving the trades, by retirement or for other reasons, only one new person is being trained in apprenticeship programs to replace them.
'Women could be the greatest untapped resource for filling that gap. It's not happening,' said Beth Youhn, director of Oakland-based Tradeswomen Inc.------------------------------------------- posted 8:37 AM :: reference link ::
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